Some people always say that when you are in a bad mood, even food will taste unpalatable, but the taste of food is there. Is the person who said this just not in the mood to eat at the moment?
Gongsun Ce was eating ramen. He thought the food in his mouth was as delicious as before. This is a good thing, because it shows that he has not lost his composure as he did when he first heard about the incident, and now he still has the energy to remain normal.
Impulse is a terrible emotion that can make people only have the only goal in their eyes and lose the ability to pay attention to other details. Now he and Alice have no choice but to wait. On the other hand, this awkward situation also provides him with rare time.
He needs to use this time to eat to restore his physical strength, and he also needs to use this time to obtain more information to decide how he, who knows nothing, can achieve the goal of preventing the arrival of the dragon in a complicated situation.
Gongsun Ce knocked on the table and sent out an inquiry signal: "What are the strong men with brain problems? I thought most of the impermanent mages were affiliated with the government like you."
"That's true if you only look at the numbers, but unfortunately it's different when it comes to quality. Some lawless guys don't really like people pointing fingers at them. There are some weird geniuses who became self-taught without any teachers and read a few ancient books. Some people At the end of the practice, their temperament changes greatly and they become real perverts, and some people are simply the products of the official's absurd plan... There are many kinds of people, but in short, there are many impermanent magicians who are not subordinate to the official in this world. "
Alice looked at the ceiling when she said this, as if remembering some bad memory.
"When the Wild Hunt force was not formed, we hunters had no official background. We basically relied on commissions to get by. Employers who issued commissions had various identities. After working for a long time, we will naturally deal with the guys just mentioned. Among them, either He is a troublesome character who will get into trouble if he comes near, or a disaster that should be run away immediately upon seeing him.”
It would be too exaggerated to describe a person as a disaster.
"You may think that this is due to my inertial thinking as an empire member...Would any country allow dangerous individuals with strange abilities to run around?"
He had good reason for saying this.
Security and stability are always the most important. As a member of the most dangerous group in the world, this superpower is being imprisoned in the sky in the present continuous tense together with millions of his compatriots.
"How do you care? Just looking at combat prowess, not every superpower is like you, right? I mean, most of the residents in this city are just young people with some special powers, right?"
The hunter looked over with a "please tell me so" look.
I'm just the weakest esper in this city! How would Alice react to hearing this? He was very interested in it and was almost ready to take action.
It's a pity that Alice's intuition is too keen, and such simple lies cannot fool her.
"Most of the ability users I know are students with weak combat capabilities. Most of their abilities are harmless to humans and animals, such as turning fried chicken legs blue, cutting the charging time of mobile phones in half, and using any book in hand. The content of the book is changed to the first part of Don Quixote, etc. Superpowers are indeed superpowers, but actual combat abilities are probably not much better than those of peers in the outside world."
"...This can be considered a super power?"
"The ability to halve the charging time is very popular. People often ask him for help with using power banks. He is imprisoned in the sky because of such a small ability. Do you feel sympathy for them?"
"No, I don't know anyone with superpowers who only exists in conversations. The only superpower I know is you, and judging from your combat performance, I have to say that it is completely understandable that you are locked up here. "
That's too much.
He was obviously just a good young man who was eager to help others, but he was said to be the kind of weirdo who would commit atrocities with a strange smile, and was finally corrected by a righteous hero with a punch.
"I am so sad."
"You're lying." The hunter rolled his eyes, "Except for a minority like you, most superpowers are teenagers with extremely low risk, which is why the city's containment operation can be so smooth. And I just The group of people mentioned at least all have the strength of the Manifestation Realm, and several of them are said to be big bosses of the Creation Realm, and they really have no control over them."
Appearance and creation are only described as realms, and they are such vague descriptions.
If you want to treat it as a possible opponent in the future, you must at least have a rough standard of strength before formulating countermeasures.
Perhaps she chose such wording because she didn't know how to explain it to laypeople.
In this case, it would be better to use something that both parties understand as a reference.
The young man came up with a good idea: "How do those people compare in strength to Tyros K, whom we just defeated? Mr. Agent said that he at least has a high level of psychic ability, and he is considered a good player by your standards. "
The corners of the blue-haired woman's mouth twitched a few times.
"Tyrros is little more than a little yellow dog in front of them."
Even the Tongshen is almost turning into a dog.
The pressure of competition these days seems to be quite high.
"Are you equivalent to a Border Collie or a Kelly Blue?"
"Probably a short-haired cat, I'm a cat person - who are you scolding!"
Alice glared at him, and even her long hair seemed to float.
This ferocious expression reminds people of a cat with its hair exploding. It’s so scary.
The bespectacled young man pressed his hands down and signaled the other person to calm down: "Don't be angry, I think dogs are very cute animals. In other words, according to your guess, these lawless free people also plan to come to the Capital of the Sky to get involved? "
"Official big shots are being watched in all aspects and will not act rashly. During this period, countries will only send middle- and lower-level people like me and Hunter to explore the situation, so that the people above can take action at the most critical moment. But free people I don’t have these worries anymore. When I received the list from the Kingdom Intelligence Department, I felt like I had a headache as if it had been transferred more than a dozen times in half a minute... How can I, a mere psychic,..."
The hunter put his head in his hands and wailed like a white-collar worker who worked hard until the end of the month and only learned that his salary had been deducted this month.
It was not a good thing for her to be immersed in such emotions. Gongsun Ce quickly interrupted his companion's self-abasement: "So who is coming? At least give me the minimum information."
"I don't know, I'm not sure. You can't imagine how outrageous that list is. Tianji, Mingke, Master Chi, Master Yinlu, Shigure... each one is a famous disaster, and each one has its own information. They all say that the intelligence is unclear and extremely dangerous. I suspect that the kingdom’s intelligence agencies have not found any evidence at all, they just sent me the list of dangerous individuals they thought of immediately.”
What happened? A word that looks like a person's name was mixed into a series of nicknames.
"The worst of them all?"
"Of course it's Tianji, the Empire's Tianji."
The hunter whispered a curse.
"Just looking at the past action records, other people participate in battles more or less to achieve their own goals. But Tianji is different...the battle itself is his goal. Almost all of his actions are fights without reason. With the strong Fight, fight with the weak, fight with all the objects of interest, mess everything up and then leave quietly, leaving only an unmanageable mess, like a strong wind without a cause."
"Everyone knows that there is a lawless madman in the Yongguang Empire. He does not seek wealth, fame or status in the world, and does not care about the safety of others and social peace. He only wants to satisfy himself with a hearty battle. If such a person gets the method to summon a dragon, do you think he will do it? What?"
"Sounds like a warrior who can fight an evil dragon one-on-one."
"That's what I'm afraid of. Whether he kills the dragon or the dragon gnaws him, we and this city will definitely be doomed." The hunter subconsciously tightened his arms, "The other person I absolutely don't want to meet is the time from Lingdao. rain."
The name sounds familiar.
He opened the news website on his phone.
"I seem to have heard this name somewhere recently. It must have been on TV... on the news."
It didn't take much effort for him to find a recent news focus.
A murder occurred in the eastern part of Lingdao last month.
It is said to be a mass death tragedy that has not happened in many years.
Gongsun Ce pointed to the photo of the suspect on the screen of his mobile phone: "Is this him?"
In the photo, there is a slim, long-haired woman with a pair of black eyes staring indifferently forward. She looks like a frail woman who is very suitable for the library. It is difficult to imagine that she will be related to the murder case.
Her name is marked below the photo: Rei Shigure.
"It is said to be a mass death tragedy, but it is actually a disgraceful accident. The Shigure Research Institute was completely destroyed by their experimental subjects. Although it is not appropriate to say this in my capacity, it is a big deal to the public that all these people are dead. Good thing."
"You sound like you're talking about some crazy science institution."
"That's the truth. Your university in Sky City is probably about the same as that place."
He can actually compare with the lunatic from Chubu United University.
That's really bad.
"Shigure Research Institute is a scientific research institution that is purely based on 'practical' purposes and attempts to cultivate impermanent law. Judging from their results over the years, their research can only be said to be too 'practical' - from The impermanent wizards who come out of that institution are either lunatics who cannot be understood, or lunatics who would not be surprised to kill even if they laugh."
When talking about the word "practical", the hunter deliberately emphasized the pronunciation, which sounded like he was being yin and yang.
"Now they are finished first, and we poor people have to help deal with the aftermath. Judging from the few information, the fleeing Shigure Zero is probably on the way to the Sky Capital, and I don't know if he is here. Please pursue me, but I’m still following the plans of the dragon madmen. No one knows what the Shigures will do.”
Shigure "we"?
"Shigure is the name of a group of people?"
"The impermanence masters trained in that institute are all named Shigure. It is always right to stay away from people named Shigure. This is common sense in our industry."
"Aren't ordinary people named Shigure very pitiful?"
"You are already an impermanent magician and you still think there will be such a coincidence around you? If you are so unprepared, you will die miserably!"
Statements that cannot be refuted.
This is true, but I still feel embarrassed in my heart.
The information he was suddenly given conflicts with the daily life he knows well. This contradiction that occurs around him makes the sense of dislocation extremely serious.
For a moment, he didn't know what to believe.
As if to deepen the impression, Gongsun Ce repeated the names of these two people in a low voice.
"Tenji and Shigure..."
The young man stared at the screen of his mobile phone, and the notification tone of the social software sounded at this moment, marking the end of this conversation.
He took back his cell phone: "They said it's almost done over there. We can just walk over and get the information now."
"Walk over? Do you still want to hand over the information in person?"
"There's always something weird about their line of work."
Alice tore off the tissue with the symbols on it, and the inexplicable sense of tranquility disappeared.
She counted out the right amount of cash from her bag and asked her boss to pay the bill.
The young man walked out of the store first.
What you see in front of you is a street with people coming and going.
Everyone was in a hurry on the road, and there was no sign of anything unusual.
He couldn't help but think that if people on the road knew the information that the dragon phenomenon was about to happen, even if it was just a possibility...
Will the peaceful order be broken by this news?
Will the flow of people on the streets collapse, and will there be a stampede like we've heard of before? After hearing this news, some people will definitely want to evacuate, but where can the superpowers go...
He had no way of knowing.
He didn't want to continue imagining it either.
at this time--
(Gongsun, on the right.)
Without warning, clear words rang out in his heart.
That soft tone sounded all too familiar to him.
Gongsun Ce looked to the right.
At the alley on the side of the street, among the passers-by, there was a young man in a suit standing upright.
He raised his right hand and put his index finger in front of his lips, making a silencing gesture.
Then, Rei Shigure took a step back.
The black suit blended into all kinds of clothing and disappeared into the crowd.
"..."
Alice just walked out of the store: "What's wrong?"
"I just happened to see my classmate again."
This is not a lie.
It seems that because he didn't lie, Alice's intuition was not touched this time.
